FIFA Quotes World Cup Quotes
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
Vladimir Putin
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
Sepp Blatter
FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
Sepp Blatter
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.
Sepp Blatter
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
Sepp Blatter
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.
Sepp Blatter
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
Roger Milla
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
Mitch Lasky
I love playing FIFA on my PlayStation!
Tiesto
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
Jurgen Klinsmann
The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.
Lionel Messi
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
Robbie Keane
Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.
Ronaldinho
You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
Lionel Messi
There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
Michael Owen
The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
Pele
Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.
Diego Maradona
The World Cup is a truly International event.
John Motson
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
Hope Solo
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
Thierry Henry
It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
Prince William
The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
Gary Lineker
I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.
Jermain Defoe
The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
Jonny Wilkinson
Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.
Mark Viduka
The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.
Cobi Jones
Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.
Ronaldinho
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
Serge Schmemann
It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
Sachin Tendulkar
I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
Michael Phelps
You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
Haile Gebrselassie
In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.
Shakira
I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.
David Beckham
